Filipino Restaurants in Angeles City & Clark

This list is for when you are in the Philippines and want to try the local food. The places here are restaurants and resto-bars in Angeles City and Clark built around Filipino dishes, and they are easiest to choose by whether it is your first time, whether you want a local atmosphere, or whether you are drinking.

If Filipino food is new to you, CODE77 near Koreatown is an easy start. It is a Filipino restaurant run by a Korean owner, with dishes Koreans tend to find familiar such as bulalo (beef bone soup), sisig, crispy pata, lumpia and garlic rice, and write-ups mention kimchi served with meals. Lechon, a whole roast pig, can be ordered if you book a day ahead.

For a local eatery feel, there is 19 Copung Copung. It has separate outdoor huts (kubo) to sit in and a long menu you order from by pointing at photos. Several reviews praise the bulalo, grilled skewers, garlic rice and mango juice, while some mention that food takes a while to arrive. Tita Aida's Kusina serves Filipino home cooking such as pancit and kare-kare (a peanut-sauce stew), with a live band every night.

With beer, Racio's Grill + Sports Bar is known for Filipino grill dishes, with chicken barbecue, liempo (grilled pork belly) and java rice as its signatures and a live band in the evening. The live bar Wishing Well also has many Filipino dishes on its menu, including crispy pata, lechon kawali, sinigang, lumpia and kinilaw.

In Clark, Mesa Filipino Moderne is on the ground floor of SM City Clark. It is a chain that serves traditional Filipino dishes with a modern touch, with kare-kare, crispy boneless pata and tinapa rolls (smoked fish rolls) among its signatures, and it has a separate function room for gatherings. Check each restaurant's page for menus and prices.